When Men and Women Are Equal

Cooking, dining, and book review magazine The New York Times has kindly allowed us to play around with their best sellers list. What a gracious old gray lady? Today we cover the hardcover fiction that will be published this coming Sunday. No books employ gender words in their titles, but the New York Times descriptions do, and they deploy the gender words equally.

Bantam, Grand Central, Putnam, and Riverhead lead the number of titles in the fiction category with two. All other publishers on the list only managed to get one book on the top twenty. All authors had one book on the list.

The titles of the books on the list had the following characteristics:

Total number of letters in titles: 245

Total number of numbers in titles: 4

Correlation between length of title and rank on list: 0.18 (weak correlation)